Juju

GLOSSARY
CHAPTER 1: Introduction - The Intellectual background
CHAPTER 2: The British Empire (Part I & Part II)
CHAPTER 3: The Irish Question
CHAPTER 4: Woman Rights (Woman in Britain & Woman in USA)
CHAPTER 5: The roaring 20s, The Great Depression, WWII & The Age of Conformity
CHAPTER 6: Immigration to USA
CHAPTER 7: The Civil Rights Movement
CHAPTER I: THE INTELLECTUAL BACKGROUND

TheModern Era (1789-1898/1918)
A. The French Revolution (American Revolution 1776-1882)
Equality, individualism and democracy
1. Popular soverenity
2. Self-determination
3. Equal rights
4. Naturalism
Books: Tom Pam – The Rights of man (1790)
Mary Wistoricraft – A Revindication of Woman’s Rights
B. The 20th Century
1.The morning (1789-1848)
a) Romantic Revolution
i. Imagination
ii. Subjectivity (I’m, me, my-self…)
iii. Melancholy
iv. Identification of nature
v. Emotions over logic
2. The Afternoon (1848-1885)
a) Realism
b) Science
c) Britain Victorian Era (stability)
3. TheEvening (1885-1914/1945)
Darkness, doubts, catastrophe (World War I & World War II)
4. Other changes
a) Demography shift (immigration from farms and villages to big industrialized cities)
b) Industrial Revolution
i. Capital vs. labor
ii. Rich vs. provincial
iii. Feminist movement
“Nature abhors a vacum” – lanaturaleza aborrece el vacio
C. Ideologies
1. First 3 democratic ideologies
a) Liberalism: personal freedom – social problems
i. Utilitarism – Britain: John Stuart-Mill (1806-1875)
• Reform penal system
• Women’s suffrage
ii. State’s task = increase pleasure and relieve painb) Socialism
i. State ownership of natural means of production
ii. Viaturalization of natural resources
iii. Basical industries – Banking
c) Conservatives: reluctant to change – “Status Quo”


*Democracy* (invented in Greece)
1) Universal Sufrage
2) Parlamentary representation
3) Equality before the law
4) Universal educationBritain – 1642 – Parlament + Crown = Parlamentary Democracy

2. Other political ideologies
a) Anarchy: opposed to any type of government, freedom of expression, no government control.
b) Comunism – Marxism: Marx (1818-1883)
1847-Comunist Manifest = “Workers of the world unite!”
State Ownership
Dictatorship of the proletariatCapitalist state must be destroyed
History = A struggle, exploiting and exploited.
c) Nationalism: social, economic and cultural aspirations of a people ( de un pueblo).
i. Self-determination
ii. A feeling of community
What can make a group feel a different community? Religion, common enemy, national recipes, sharedideologies, literature, music, national hero…
D. Other Revolutions
1. Darwin (1809-1880)
a) Evolution through natural selection
b) Survival of the fittest
c) On the origen of species – book which revolved the world
d) Humans descend from apes
2. Social Darwinism
Human Society – Animal Kingdom
NaturalSelection – races and classes
3. Nietsche (1844-1900)
Traditional values = death (Christianity)
“God is Dead”
Traditional values are no longer valid
The will of power – power over one self and power of creativity
Supercreators = Socrates, Shakespeare, Napoleon…
4. Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)
a) Theory of...